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Perfectability vs Perfectibility - What's the difference?

perfectability | perfectibility |

As nouns the difference between perfectability and perfectibility

is that perfectability is the state or quality of being able to be perfected while perfectibility is the possibility of achieving perfection.

perfectability

English

Noun

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  • The state or quality of being able to be perfected.
  • * 1914 , Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel , Chapter V:
    • He had noticed in his circle many an otherwise promising union result in disappointment and dismay, purely in consequence of the false estimate formed by bride or bridegroom concerning the imagined perfectability of the other.
  • * 1920 , Sax Rohmer, The Golden Scorpion , Chapter III:
    • The man who has learned the Fifth Secret of Rache Churan—who has learned how to control his will—holds a power absolute and beyond perfectability .
  • * 1921 , Allen Johnson, A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty , Yale University Press (1921), page 19:
    • In him as in his two intimates, Gallatin and Madison, there was a touch of that philosophy which colored the thought of reformers on the eve of the French Revolution, a naive confidence in the perfectability of man and the essential worthiness of his aspirations.
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    • perfectibility

    English

    Noun

    (perfectibilities)
  • The possibility of achieving perfection.
    • In a project involving many people, maintainability is a more useful asset than perfectibility .